{"id":2574,"date":"2018-01-22T14:52:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T09:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.themediaant.com\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2019-08-08T15:35:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T10:05:44","slug":"search-engine-optimization-market-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themediaant.com\/blog\/search-engine-optimization-market-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Search Engine Optimization &#8211; Free Marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a non starter, SEO is how the results appear on Google Search. When you search for something on Google and the links appear below, that&#8217;s called Search Engine Optimization or SEO in short. Not to be confused with the ads, which have &#8220;Ad&#8221; mentioned\u00a0 on left hand side.<\/p>\n<p>SEO is compulsory for any business that has an online presence. Among all marketing activities paid or free, if I had to recommend one to pick, it would be SEO. A website can have anywhere between 40% to 100% of their traffic coming through Google searches, it is free and also it makes your cost when you run paid advertising on Google.<\/p>\n<p>SEO is not one time process and makes sense to look at is as an integral continuous long term part of the marketing mix.<\/p>\n<p>Few links that will help one understand the basics of SEO:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordstream.com\/blog\/ws\/2015\/04\/30\/seo-basics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Beginners Guide to SEO<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/moz.com\/beginners-guide-to-seo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">MOZ Beginner&#8217;s Guide to SEO<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/searchenginewatch.com\/2016\/01\/21\/seo-basics-22-essentials-you-need-for-optimizing-your-site\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">22 Essentials to a good SEO<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.themediaant.com\/search-engine-optimization-market-free\/factors-that-influence-seo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2576 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2576\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.themediaant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Factors-that-influence-SEO.png?resize=740%2C458\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themediaant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Factors-that-influence-SEO.png?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themediaant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Factors-that-influence-SEO.png?resize=300%2C186&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themediaant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Factors-that-influence-SEO.png?resize=768%2C475&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" title=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a non starter, SEO is how the results appear on Google Search. When you search for something on Google and the links appear below, that&#8217;s called Search Engine Optimization&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2117],"tags":[161,260],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themediaant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Basics-of-SEO.jpeg?fit=1300%2C867&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themediaant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themediaant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themediaant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themediaant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themediaant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.themediaant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6199,"href":"https:\/\/www.themediaant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions\/6199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themediaant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themediaant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themediaant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themediaant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}